BIBFRAME has worked on modelling works as Works within the BIBFRAME model, similar to the RDA modelling work, itself modelled on the work on the FRBR model of Works and Expressions. A BIBFRAME Work is a creative work, perhaps a…
Bookmarklet for searching catalogues from Wikipedia
I have come up with two bookmarklets that allow you to search for an author’s works in a library catalogue from the author’s Wikipedia page in one click. A bookmarklet is a browser bookmark that does something with the page…
RDF Viewer
I have programmed a simple RDF viewer called RDFV RDF Viewer for viewing RDF. Copy and paste the contents of an RDF turtle or n-triples file into the box. The viewer will let you click on an element to highlight…
Bumblebees in Sandy, 2012
Following on from my other enthralling posts about grasshoppers and bush-crickets, here is one about bumblebees. I always used to think there were two sorts of bee: honey bees and bumblebees. I later thought there are two sorts of bumblebee:…
Bush-crickets in Sandy, 2012
Following on from my write-up of grasshoppers I’ve seen in Sandy, I would like to do the same for their close-relatives, bush-crickets. Bush-crickets are also orthoptera, but I find them more interesting. They are generally shorter but more bulky, larger,…
Grasshoppers in Sandy, 2012
I don’t recall as a child ever seeing a grasshopper or cricket except for some locusts in the school science lab. Like most nature I assumed I didn’t live in the right place, or that these things were too scarce,…
Running
For my own personal record as much as anything, here are the races I’ve entered and the chip times recorded: Cambridge Cambourne 10K 3 April 2011 00:56:39 Silverstone Half Marathon 11 March 2012 02:13:46 Standalone 10K (2012) 7 October 2012…
MRV MARC Record Viewer
I have finally completed a multiple record MARC Record Viewer. This has been rather long in the making but is essentially a quick and practical tool for looking at and assessing MARC records without having to load them into specialist…
One record in lots of data formats
For a Dev8d session I did with Owen Stephens in February I presented data for a single book and followed how it had changed as standards changed, trying above to explain to non-cataloguers why catalogue records look and work the…
How big is my book: Mashcat session
At Mashcat on 5 July in Cambridge I gave an afternoon session on getting computer readable information from the textual information held in MARC21 300 fields using Javascript and regular expressions. I intended this to be useful for cataloguers who…